Child Care Leave for Male service personnel

Defence Minister has approved the extension of benefits of Child Care Leave (CCL) to single male service personnel.

• He also approved certain relaxations of Child Care Leave (CCL) provisions in case of women officers of defence forces.
• Presently, CCL is granted to women officers in defence forces.

Highlights

• Single male service personnel and women officers of defence forces will also be able to avail CCL in respect of child with 40% disability without any restriction of age limit of the child.
• The minimum period of CCL that can be availed in each spell has been reduced to five days from the earlier limit of 15 days.
• The DoPT made certain amendments for grant of CCL to civilian employees, extending the benefit to single male government servants as well.
• Further, the age limit of 22 years prescribed earlier in the case of a child with 40% disability has been removed for the purpose of availing CCL.
• The minimum period of CCL that can be availed at a time has been reduced to 5 days instead of 15.

Source: The Hindu

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